Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, affectionately known as TP or Gildy is owner of Gildersleeve Girdle works and onetime neighbor of Fibber McGee and bearer of an inimitable dirty laugh! In this first episode of “The Great Gildersleeve we see the departure of TP from his home town Wistful Vista to Summerfield. On the train journey TP enters into a disagreement with a man over a lower berth and it later turns out that the man in question is Judge Horace Hooker. Here begins a wonderfully comic relationship of feuds and arguments!

 Duration: 33:51 

Starring: Harold Peary 

Broadcast Date: 16th May 1941